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BlackSanguinor wrote:
@Dragonfodder It would be nice to have the 14th Black Crusade actually a decoy for a massive Ork Waaagh for a change

Absolutely.

"Oy Boss, why's we letting dem spikey 'umies go?"
*Smacks insolent boy with a power klaw* "YOU STUPID GIT! DEY'S GONNA GO FOIGHT DEM 'UMIES ON CADIA, SO DEN DAT WAYZ, WE CAN COME IN AND KRUMP EM BOTH AT DA SAME TIME! DEY NEVA GONNA SEE US HIT 'EM, SEPT WHEN WE HIT EM HARDER!"
*Former boy to busy with massive case of missing head to respond*

 Dragonfodder wrote:

BlackSanguinor wrote:
@Dragonfodder It would be nice to have the 14th Black Crusade actually a decoy for a massive Ork Waaagh for a change

Absolutely.

"Oy Boss, why's we letting dem spikey 'umies go?"
*Smacks insolent boy with a power klaw* "YOU STUPID GIT! DEY'S GONNA GO FOIGHT DEM 'UMIES ON CADIA, SO DEN DAT WAYZ, WE CAN COME IN AND KRUMP EM BOTH AT DA SAME TIME! DEY NEVA GONNA SEE US HIT 'EM, SEPT WHEN WE HIT EM HARDER!"
*Former boy to busy with massive case of missing head to respond*

You forgot the part where the boy, Warboss, Abbadon, Creed, and Cadia were all actually bodies usurped by Trazyn for the lulz

The entire Eldar race. Any time someone wants to be badass they leave a massive heap of space elf corpses. Clearly they must be lying about their birth rates to maintain all these losses.

 Kain wrote:
The entire Eldar race. Any time someone wants to be badass they leave a massive heap of space elf corpses. Clearly they must be lying about their birth rates to maintain all these losses.

Actually they're the same corpses. eldar pathfinders retrieve the bodies after each sighting, put them in statis then reposition them somewhere else. repainting armour if needed :p

I am ready to see a story about a space marine chapter that looses, period. Nothing super complicated, just want to read one being whiped out on a particular battlefield.

 BunkerBob wrote:
I am ready to see a story about a space marine chapter that looses, period. Nothing super complicated, just want to read one being whiped out on a particular battlefield.

Read up on the Lamenters chapter for me.. Your dreams will be fulfilled... They are the single unluckies Chapter in the whole bloody Imperium -_-

Thwe Celestial lions (i think that was their name) is another good one

 BunkerBob wrote:
I am ready to see a story about a space marine chapter that looses, period. Nothing super complicated, just want to read one being whiped out on a particular battlefield.

There's a short story about the crimson consuls getting their gak handed to them by the alpha legion. It's in (Ironically enough) Victories of the space marines. Their entire chapter is wiped out within a day.

Not so ironic, as it was still about Space Marines achieving a victory, just not the Crimson Consuls in that case.

PredaKhaine wrote:I want to add...

40k Ultramarines. I swear some books have it so that all you need to beat them is a copy of the codex astartes and a flow chart.

If we do *this*, they will respond like *this* and so forth.

*insert generic tactic

Yeah, I think the first author to do that was the goober who wrote the original Alpha Legion Index Astartes, and then suddenly it became this ludicrous 40K meme that every bad author latches on to when he writes about the Ultramarines.

I mean, not to ask the hard questions, but since every battle has thousands of variables, especially given the fact that Space Marines fight on different freaking planets, lol, how could there possibly be an "always does this" type reaction from any given army?

 BunkerBob wrote:
I am ready to see a story about a space marine chapter that looses, period. Nothing super complicated, just want to read one being whiped out on a particular battlefield.

Scythes of the Emperor. They're now mostly lining Hive Fleet Kraken's gullet.

PredaKhaine wrote:I want to add...

40k Ultramarines. I swear some books have it so that all you need to beat them is a copy of the codex astartes and a flow chart.

If we do *this*, they will respond like *this* and so forth.

*insert generic tactic

Haha so true. I'm guessing you have read Betrayer?

Yep

Honsou likes exploiting them too.

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Orks. A couple of squads of Crimson Fists hold back a whole bloody Waaagh! And escape. Nuff said. Also, Ferrus Manus, there isn't even any pictures of his face!! He's that unimportant ._.

Didnt one of the Crimson Fist's own defense missile blow up their own arsenal and destroy most of the chapter. I would say a minor Ork warband virtually killing off an entire SM chapter was a pretty good day's work for the Orks.

No an ork missile hit a weak point which destroyed it.

BaconUprising wrote:
No an ork missile hit a weak point which destroyed it.

No, it was their own missile from their own defense system. It was hinted at that this may have been due to deliberate sabotage by the Officio Assasinonrum but no concrete evidence of such. Of course that could just be the refusal of people to believe Space Marines could ever suffer from something like colossal bad luck.

Iracundus wrote:
Of course that could just be the refusal of people to believe Space Marines could ever suffer from something like colossal bad luck.

The Lamenters have horrible luck.

The Lamenters got their butts kicked all the time... The Minotaurs beat them and they got destroyed by 'Nids.

Lucarikx

Iracundus wrote:

BaconUprising wrote:
No an ork missile hit a weak point which destroyed it.

No, it was their own missile from their own defense system. It was hinted at that this may have been due to deliberate sabotage by the Officio Assasinonrum but no concrete evidence of such. Of course that could just be the refusal of people to believe Space Marines could ever suffer from something like colossal bad luck.

I don't confess to know much on that battle but if I do say so myself that is hilarious. Major derpy moment when they slowly turn around and their fortress monestry just falls over!

BaconUprising wrote:

Iracundus wrote:

BaconUprising wrote:
No an ork missile hit a weak point which destroyed it.

No, it was their own missile from their own defense system. It was hinted at that this may have been due to deliberate sabotage by the Officio Assasinonrum but no concrete evidence of such. Of course that could just be the refusal of people to believe Space Marines could ever suffer from something like colossal bad luck.

I don't confess to know much on that battle but if I do say so myself that is hilarious. Major derpy moment when they slowly turn around and their fortress monestry just falls over!

It was their own missile, I checked in my RT before I posted. You said you didnt know much about the battle so why did you post it was an Ork missile?

Ultramarines. (Battle of Macragge, Honsou's grudge match)

JWhex wrote:

BaconUprising wrote:

Iracundus wrote:

BaconUprising wrote:
No an ork missile hit a weak point which destroyed it.

No, it was their own missile from their own defense system. It was hinted at that this may have been due to deliberate sabotage by the Officio Assasinonrum but no concrete evidence of such. Of course that could just be the refusal of people to believe Space Marines could ever suffer from something like colossal bad luck.

I don't confess to know much on that battle but if I do say so myself that is hilarious. Major derpy moment when they slowly turn around and their fortress monestry just falls over!

It was their own missile, I checked in my RT before I posted. You said you didnt know much about the battle so why did you post it was an Ork missile?

Why exactly does it matter. Chill out...

Oh and anyone fighting Maugan Ra. Man solo'd a god damn hive fleet, plunged into the eye of terror and single handedly slapped the legions of chaos silly before dragging out a craftworld, and bisected a biotitan.

Bad

ASS.